I find I’m having a very positive response to Connecticut’s plan to take junk food out of schools. I wish my schools had been like this (though I wouldn’t have wished that at the time). I must be a real grown-up now. Hmph.
Posted by Deana in Education on April 19th, 2004 | 4 Comments »
An author called Joan Roughgarden, in her new book Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender and Sexualilty in Nature and People, argues that Darwin’s theory of sexual selection doesn’t fit the available data based on her research on homosexuality and same-sex relationships in humans and other animals. This interview with Roughgarden is interesting, although a bit shallow, [...]
Posted by Deana in Sexuality on April 18th, 2004 | 4 Comments »
Folks have been trying to figure out the shape of the universe for a long time. Early answers included “a big tree” and “flat, supported by elephants on the back of a turtle”. One of the latest ideas is a Picard topology, sort of a horn shape with a really long end. I notice that [...]
Posted by Chris in Science on April 16th, 2004 | 4 Comments »
This probably won’t make sense to anyone else, but I need to make a note reminding myself about something I thought about over lunch. (I always lose them otherwise, so maybe this will help me remember.) Read on if that kind of thing interests you.
Posted by Chris in Science on April 15th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
This is a cute satire put out by Planned Parenthood to promote their March for Women’s Lives on April 25th.
Posted by Deb in Politics on April 11th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Global Spin by Chris Radcliff is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.